The catastrophic damage to the bridge was foreseeable. Diligent maintenance of the bridge would have included bolstering the piers to account for the increase in ship size over the years.
Who is responsible for the bridge?
there is nothing that could have been done to that bridge including bolstering the piers which would have prevented the collapse.
the only thing that could have been done to prevent that would have been using tugs move ships like that until after clearing the bridge.
I watched a drone video from the DOT and I could see virtually NO protection for the bridge piers.
I thought that after the Skyway Bridge collapse many years ago that every major bridge was equipped with pier protection.
IMO-—DO NOT REPLACE THE BRIDGE..
EITHER HAVE A PORT OR DO NOT HAVE A PORT.
BOTH COMBINED ARE INCOMPATIBLE with TODAY’S LARGE SHIPS